Hygienist’s Sexual Harassment Claims Lack Credibility

A dental hygienist claimed she was constructively dismissed as a result of unfavorable changes to the practice’s vacation pay policies and sexual harassment. But the court shot down both allegations. The hygienist signed a new contract expressly agreeing to the vacation pay changes; and as for the sex harassment claims, the court simply didn’t believe them. The hygienist was not a credible witness; and her lurid accusations of being subjected to obscene videos and offensively graphic comments by dentists were not only made deep into the case—almost as an afterthought—but shaky in their factual details, not to mention vigorously contradicted by all the other witnesses whom the judge found to be much more believable [Lancia v. Park Dentistry, 2018 ONSC 751 (CanLII), Feb. 7, 2018].